They do actually.
Salamence @Choice Scarf
Intimidate | Naughty | 252 Atk/80 SpA/176 Spd
~ Outrage
~ Fire Blast
~ Hydro Pump
~ Earthquake
Which looks almost identical to the set posted.
how effective is this Salamance? I happen to run a similar one only mine's built like this.
Salamance@Choice Scarf
Intimidate/Rash/ 112 Atk/216SpA/180Spd
~Outrage
~Fire Blast
~Draco Meteor
~Earthquake.
Mine runs Draco Meteor over Hydro Pump, and is quite the nasty suprise to those who don't see it coming, although i do wonder which Salamance is better..
However that's not why i am here(the salamance set made me curious though.) I've got a problem.
Recently i've been running into teams that rely on toxic spikers, normally rapid spin would be the best answer, but they also happen to run counters to the spinners (Gengar and Dusknoir.) so I've been needing another way to get rid of the Toxic spikes.
I've tried the following Roserade out, but so far it hasn't worked very well.
Roserade@Choice Scarf
Natural Cure/Modest/ 4Hp/252 SpA/ 252 Spd
~Leaf Storm
~Sludge Bomb
~Hidden Power [ground]
~Shadow Ball
I figured that since poison pokemon can remove the spikes the best way to do so was use a poison type of my own, Shadow Ball takes care of Latias and other Psychic's that might oppose it, Hidden Power Ground is there for Heatran and any steel pokemon that isn't Scizor, and Sludge Bomb and Leaf Storm are there for stab, but even with this configuration i've still had trouble.
Is there any other pokemon that I could use, like Breloom or Clefable since I know Toxic Spikes can't touch them, or any other good poison pokemon?
since this is a single's thread I won't digress into the rest of my team too much but this is the rest of my team in order.
Metagross
Salamance
Jolteon
Infernape
Vaporeon
Roserade....
I would prefer to keep the balance upheld if possible.
I need advice from experts, normally I try gamefaqs, but that site is filled with insensitive people who never give anyone the light of day anymore when asking for help.